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<strong>South</strong>east <strong>Florida</strong>’s <strong>Regional</strong> Vision and Blueprint for Economic Prosperity<br />

Naphtali David Rishe<br />

High-Performance Database Research<br />

Center, School of Computing<br />

and Information Sciences<br />

<strong>Florida</strong> International University<br />

Areas of Expertise<br />

Computer Science Database<br />

Management<br />

High-Performance Computing<br />

Professional Experience<br />

Dr. Rishe has more than 27 years of experience in the areas of computer science database<br />

management and high performance computing. He is the author of three books on database<br />

design and geography; editor of five books on database management and high performance<br />

computing; inventor of four U.S. patents on database querying, semantic database performance,<br />

Internet data extraction, and computer medicine; author of 300 papers in journals and proceedings<br />

on databases, software engineering, geographic information systems, Internet, and life<br />

science.<br />

Dr. Rishe has been awarded over $40 million in research grants by Government and Industry,<br />

including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation<br />

(NSF), IBM, U.S. Department of the Interior, and U.S. Geological Survey. He has been the<br />

architect of major industrial projects – both prior to his academic career, and as a consultant<br />

since. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Schience.<br />

Dr. Rishe is the Founder and Director of the High Performance Database Research Center<br />

(HPDRC) at <strong>Florida</strong> International University (FIU). He also serves as Director of the NSF<br />

Center for Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) at FIU and of the NSF<br />

International FIU-<strong>Florida</strong> Atlantic University-Dubna Industry-University Cooperative Research<br />

Center for Advanced Knowledge Enablement (I/UCRC). Dr. Rishe is the mentor of 70 postdocs,<br />

Ph.D.s, and M.S.s students and the inaugural FIU Outstanding University Professor.<br />

Dr. Rishe’s principal projects include: TerraFly – a 40 TB database of aerial imagery and Web-<br />

Based Geographic Information Systems; Semantic Wrapper of Relational Databases and<br />

Application of SQL for Concise Semantic Querying; Semantic Database Management; Medical<br />

Informatics. His TerraFly project has been extensively covered by worldwide press, including<br />

the New York Times, USA Today, NPR, Science and Nature Journals, and FOX TV News.<br />

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